[128363] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Wed Aug 4 11:06:38 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: Xavier Beaudouin <kiwi@oav.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:06:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: <2E43B2DA-0094-4530-83E2-8B351974471A@oav.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
it works, i see folks creating networks of hosts under ESXi protected by a=
n ASA instance.. not for production. I'm sure its not legal but Cisco do=
esn't seem to have a strong stand on it, I'd think as long as you are usin=
g it for educational use and not commercial, they may not care a whole bun=
ch. =20
What you can not do while emulating ASA is use encryption, no VPNs or othe=
rwise. this is due to the fact the ASA units use hardware encryption, when=
the OS makes calls to the controller, it isn't there..
-g
On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
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> Le 4 ao=FBt 2010 =E0 15:14, Mirko Maffioli a =E9crit :
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>> 2010/7/25 Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>:
>>>=20
>>> Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware... It's howev=
er
>>> very hackish... :)
>>=20
>> Cisco ASA under VMware?? :|
>=20
> CiscoASA is based on x86, there is no reasons you cannot run this into VM=
Ware or Xen...
>=20
> Xavier
